IBA Wins $3.7 Million Contracts with 16 NHS Trusts in England

Australia's largest listed health information technology company today announced that its UK subsidiary iB Solutions has this month won five contracts with 16 NHS trusts worth a total of $3.7 million (£1.75 million) for its Integra range of financial and purchasing applications.

iB Solutions is providing a consortium of five NHS trusts in Greater Manchester with a fully hosted managed service from its data centre at Prestwich in Manchester for 140 concurrent users and up to 10,000 web users for four years.

Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Trust is switching from its current Mentec system to Integra and will also act as the development site for a budgeting and planning module due for completion in September.

Eamonn Morris, managing director of iB Solutions, said: "The contract was won in an open tender and reflects the increasing popularity of fully managed services to deliver a low risk and highly cost effective solution to the NHS."

Birmingham Shared Service - a consortium of six NHS organisations - will implement the Integra suite of web-enabled financial and purchasing applications. An existing bureau customer, Birmingham, will also replace its Version One document management and imaging system with Integra for automatic scanning, recognition, storage, archiving, and retrieval of documents.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is upgrading its Integra applications and taking a new OCR scanning solution. Three primary care trusts (PCTs) in Nottinghamshire are also buying the OCR scanning application. Nottingham County, Nottingham City, and Bassetlaw PCTs operate a local shared service and will also use a new web-enabled management information module.

A new mental health trust in the West Midlands has agreed a three year contract for Integra. This trust is being formed after the merger of two mental health units, which are existing bureau customers.

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About IBA Health Group
IBA Health Group Limited (ASX-IBA) is the largest specialist information technology company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

IBA builds software applications for healthcare. We work with healthcare professionals to design and build solutions that answer all of the difficult questions posed by today's care delivery challenges. Our solutions act as a catalyst for change, supporting the exchange of critical information across diverse care settings and participant organisations. We are the leader in the provision of advanced application solutions in modern healthcare economies around the world.

Today, over 13,000 provider organisations in 35 countries across five continents use IBA's solutions to manage patient information and drive improvements in their core processes. The group's sustainable development is delivered through careful planning, in-depth analysis of our market and anticipation of evolving requirements. Our business is driven by the collective talent, experience and commitment of over 3,500 healthcare IT experts around the globe.

A global network of IBA subsidiaries, supported by an extensive partner network, provides substantial experience of national healthcare markets. As a result we offer our customers comprehensive knowledge of local market requirements, in terms of culture, language, working practice, healthcare regulation and organisational structure.

For more information on IBA Health, please visit the Company’s website at www.ibahealth.com.

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